UFO & UAP
Unidentified aerial phenomena reported by pilots, military personnel and ordinary witnesses — with what the records show, what the official investigations concluded, and what they could not explain.
The Shag Harbour Incident: Lights That Went Into the Sea
In October 1967 witnesses in a Nova Scotia fishing village saw lights descend into the ocean. RCMP, Coast Guard and navy divers searched. Nothing was found.
Frederick Valentich: The Pilot Who Reported Something Above Him
In 1978 a young pilot over Bass Strait told Melbourne controllers an object was orbiting his Cessna. The transmission ended in a metallic noise. He was never found.
The Nimitz “Tic Tac” Encounter
In November 2004, Navy pilots off California chased a white, wingless object that radar had tracked for days. The Nimitz Tic Tac case, the FLIR1 video and what is known.
The Malmstrom Missile Shutdown Incident
In March 1967 ten nuclear missiles at a Montana flight went offline. Were UFOs to blame? What the Echo Flight records show, and what rests on later testimony.
The Interdimensional Hypothesis: Vallée, Keel and UFOs Beyond Space
Are UFOs from another dimension rather than another planet? How Jacques Vallée and John Keel challenged the alien-visitor idea, and what physics really means by dimensions.
Canada’s UFO Archives: What the Government Files Contain
Library and Archives Canada holds decades of UFO reports from the military, the RCMP and the NRC. What is in the files and how to search them yourself.
The Exeter Incident
In September 1965 a teenager and two New Hampshire police officers saw a low object with pulsing red lights. The Exeter case, Project Blue Book and John G. Fuller’s book.
The Rendlesham Forest Incident
Over several nights in December 1980, US airmen in a Suffolk forest reported strange lights. The Halt memo, the MoD files and the lighthouse theory, examined.
The Valensole Encounter
In July 1965 French lavender farmer Maurice Masse said he met two small beings beside a landed craft in his field. The gendarmerie inquiry and what it found.
The 1990 Montreal UFO Above the Hôtel Bonaventure
On 7 November 1990, guests on a downtown Montreal hotel roof and police officers watched lights hang over the city for hours. What did they see?
Why Don’t Aliens Show Themselves? The Main Scientific Ideas
The zoo hypothesis, the speed of light, the dark forest and the limits of SETI: the leading explanations for why we have not met extraterrestrials.
The Fermi Paradox Explained: If Aliens Exist, Where Are They?
Enrico Fermi’s 1950 lunchtime question, Michael Hart’s argument, the Drake equation and the Great Filter: a clear guide to the Fermi paradox and its solutions.
Project Magnet: Canada’s 1950s Flying Saucer Study
In 1950 a Canadian government radio engineer, Wilbert B. Smith, began studying flying saucers and magnetism. The story of Project Magnet and Second Storey.
Aliens Living Among Us: Where the Claim Comes From
Contactees, the 2001 Disclosure Project press conference and former officials’ remarks: the history of the claim that aliens already live on Earth.
Underwater Alien Bases: The History of a Hidden-Ocean Theory
Are aliens hiding under the sea? How Ivan Sanderson’s 1970 book Invisible Residents launched the undersea base idea, and what ocean science says.
The Belgian UFO Wave
From 1989 to 1990 many Belgians reported silent flying triangles, and F-16s were scrambled. The radar data, the hoax photo exposed in 2011 and what remains open.
Human-Alien Hybrids: The Abduction Breeding Programme Claim
From Antônio Villas Boas in 1957 to Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs, how the alien hybrid claim developed, and what memory research says about it.
UFO Sightings in Quebec: What Is Actually Documented
From the 1990 Montreal lights to decades of reports in federal files, a sober guide to Quebec UFO sightings, who collected them and what they show.
Nordic Aliens: Adamski, Meier and the Tall Blond Visitors
Tall, blond and benevolent: how 1950s contactee George Adamski and Swiss farmer Billy Meier created the Nordic alien, and what photo analysts found.
How Canada’s Military Has Handled UFOs and UAP
From Project Second Storey and Falcon Lake to the 2023 Yukon shootdown and the Sky Canada Project, how Canada’s defence establishment has dealt with UAP.
The Area 51 Alien Interview Video: Anatomy of a Viral Clip
A grainy clip of a grey alien talking to interrogators, supposedly leaked from Area 51. What is known about the viral video, and the Alien Autopsy precedent.
Betty and Barney Hill: The Abduction Story That Started It All
A New Hampshire couple saw a light on a mountain road in 1961. Under hypnosis they described being taken aboard a craft. The first famous abduction case, examined.
Bob Lazar: The S-4 Claims, Element 115 and the Missing Records
In 1989 Bob Lazar said he worked on alien craft at a secret site near Area 51. What he claimed, what checks out, and what has never been found.
David Grusch: The UAP Whistleblower Who Testified to Congress
A former intelligence officer told Congress under oath that the US holds non-human craft. What he claimed, what he could show, and what AARO later found.
The Falcon Lake Incident
In May 1967 prospector Stefan Michalak said a landed craft burned his chest in a grid pattern near Falcon Lake, Manitoba. The burns, the RCMP files and the doubts.
George Knapp: The Las Vegas Reporter Behind Lazar and Skinwalker
George Knapp broke the Bob Lazar story in 1989, co-wrote Hunt for the Skinwalker and now co-hosts Weaponized. Who he is and why his work divides opinion.
Grey Aliens: How One Image Came to Define the Extraterrestrial
Big head, black eyes, grey skin: how the Hill abduction, Close Encounters and the Communion cover turned one alien image into a global icon.
Alien Interview: The Matilda O’Donnell MacElroy Story
A 2008 book claims a Roswell nurse named Matilda O’Donnell MacElroy telepathically interviewed an alien in 1947. No record shows she existed. Here is the story.
Jason Sands: An Air Force Veteran’s Claims of Alien Contact
Air Force veteran Jason Sands says he saw non-human craft and met a being in Nevada in the 1990s. What he claims, what can be checked, and what AARO’s report says.
Jeremy Corbell: Filmmaker, Leaker and UAP Provocateur
Jeremy Corbell made the Bob Lazar film and released the Navy ‘pyramid’ UAP footage. What he has put out, what the Pentagon confirmed and what analysts think.
NASA’s UAP Study: What the Space Agency Actually Found
In 2023 NASA’s independent UAP study team reported on unexplained sightings. What the panel concluded, what it asked for, and why data quality was the core problem.
The New Jersey Drone Sightings of 2024
In late 2024 thousands of drone reports gripped New Jersey and nearby states. What people saw, what the FBI and White House said, and what is still unclear.
Paul Hellyer: The Former Defence Minister Who Spoke Out on UFOs
Paul Hellyer unified Canada’s armed forces in the 1960s. Decades later he became the most senior Western politician to say publicly that aliens visit Earth.
The Phoenix Lights
On 13 March 1997 thousands in Arizona saw lights in the sky. Two separate events, military flares, and a governor who changed his story: the Phoenix Lights explained.
Project Blue Book: The US Air Force’s 17-Year UFO Investigation
From 1952 to 1969 the US Air Force logged 12,618 UFO reports and left 701 unidentified. How Project Blue Book worked, what it concluded and where its files are now.
Reptilian Aliens: The History of the Lizard People Theory
Shape-shifting reptilians secretly ruling the world: how David Icke’s 1990s theory grew, its folklore roots, and why critics link it to antisemitic tropes.
The Roswell Incident
In July 1947 the Army announced it had recovered a “flying disc” in New Mexico, then called it a weather balloon. How Roswell became UFO lore, and what the records show.
The Tall Whites: Charles James Hall’s Nevada Desert Story
A former Air Force weather observer says he met tall, pale beings near Nellis in the 1960s. What the Tall Whites story claims, and what backs it up.
The Phenomenon: James Fox’s 2020 UFO Documentary
James Fox’s The Phenomenon, narrated by Peter Coyote, argues that UFOs deserve serious attention. What the film covers, who appears in it, and how it was received.
The Travis Walton Abduction: Five Days Missing in Arizona
In 1975 a logging crew said a glowing craft struck their co-worker with a beam. Travis Walton was missing for five days. Polygraphs, doubts and Fire in the Sky.
The Kumburgaz UFO Videos: Turkey’s Most Famous Sighting
Between 2007 and 2009 a night watchman near Istanbul filmed glowing objects over the Sea of Marmara. What the videos show, who analysed them, and the doubts.
Underwater UFOs: What USO Reports Actually Show
Shag Harbour in 1967, the 2013 Aguadilla video and the 2019 USS Omaha footage: what is documented about objects seen entering the sea, and what is not.